My purchasing issues got sorted out eventually, used another credit card, and ordered a better laptop that was in stock and shipped same day.

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If you're buying 4x$3.5k laptops per month and have to put it on a credit card rather than an account* you should get the business to provide you with a company card - not just borrow one from someone else and hope they have enough $$ on it to go through, and definitely don't put that much on your personal card.

* seriously at that sort of volume you should have no problem getting an account set up with a VAR.

New problem, which it looks like everyone has.

New staff in AU typically have 4 weeks notice, no issues here. Just got an email from the HR in the US, hey, new starter on Monday, that's not a problem right? Thankfully I don't have to deal with their hardware procurement, but for fuck's sake, an at will to work state = no notice required to hire or fire. If it didn't take me about an hour to get all the accounts ready, I'd probably try and demand at least a week.

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What's taking you an hour to do, and can you automate it? From your previous posts it sounds like the company is expanding quite decently, so automating account setup would be wise, no need to worry about short notice aside from hardware wise, and just make it well known that hardware purchases take X time (include time to get spending approval if required), if people don't give you the required notice to get hardware, it's on them.

Stop it, I'm being indoctrinated at the moment and you're invading my safe space.
Need to do something in linux? The Red Hat answer is <something>ctl. Nice and simple. Screw learning the interfaces file, because networkmanager. And soforth

Stop it, I'm being indoctrinated at the moment and you're invading my safe space.
Need to do something in linux? The Red Hat answer is <something>ctl. Nice and simple. Screw learning the interfaces file, because networkmanager. And soforth

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cli interface is not the issue, journald has always been an issue.

Also, windows world is just as fragmented at the cli.

EDIT - logging has been done nicely for 30+ years by syslog and logger, journald adds complexity and incompatibility when run in binary mode.

If I wanted to see the world and get fucked by my manager as well I'd join the navy, which is a funny coincidence because my last boss was a US Navy vet and he did a whole lot of fucking, thankfully only over con calls for me.

Seriously though, grass is greener - I'd prefer to do what you're doing right now.